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travelbug · November 4th, 2006, 02:12 AM

I think the vanity sizing fools a lot of women. My MIL for instance. She is a solid size 10 (I looked at the sizes of her pants in her closet), yet she bragged to me that she was a size 6 now just because she was able to fit into ONE pair of pants that were size 6 in ONE store. Wanna guess where she's going to do more shopping? I wanted to take off my size 6 jeans and see if she could pull them over her considerable ass.

Now, I am a pretty solid size 6, and I say that because that is the size I would pick up to try on first and that would fit in most stores. There are certain stores (like Ann Taylor Loft) that vanity size and I can wear a size 4 in there and even those can be loose (I had one pair of ATL size 4 pants this summer that were almost falling off). That actually annoys me. I don't want to play this game.

And it bothers me that my MIL, who does nothing in the way of exercise, is so smug about being a size 6, which she really isn't, when I, the true size 6, work my ass off in the gym to maintain that.

November 4th, 2006, 02:12 AM	#13 (permalink)
travelbug Elite Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 3,150	I think the vanity sizing fools a lot of women. My MIL for instance. She is a solid size 10 (I looked at the sizes of her pants in her closet), yet she bragged to me that she was a size 6 now just because she was able to fit into ONE pair of pants that were size 6 in ONE store. Wanna guess where she's going to do more shopping? I wanted to take off my size 6 jeans and see if she could pull them over her considerable ass. Now, I am a pretty solid size 6, and I say that because that is the size I would pick up to try on first and that would fit in most stores. There are certain stores (like Ann Taylor Loft) that vanity size and I can wear a size 4 in there and even those can be loose (I had one pair of ATL size 4 pants this summer that were almost falling off). That actually annoys me. I don't want to play this game. And it bothers me that my MIL, who does nothing in the way of exercise, is so smug about being a size 6, which she really isn't, when I, the true size 6, work my ass off in the gym to maintain that.